Aaron

Mon semblable, - mon frère!

@BaileyTrela @thebafflermag Look out for my translation of Éric Rohmer’s novel, out later this year (I think) from @McNallyEditions, if that’s up your alley!

Final thanks to @baileytrela and @thebafflermag for this wonderful deep dive on Monterroso and The Rest Is Silence! thebaffler.com/latest/perfect…

I’ve forgotten my twitter password and the app seems unwilling to let me recover it—seems like as good a moment as any to just Mary-Celeste the whole thing.

Prompt

deus e o diabo na terra do sol (1964) - dir. glauber rocha

in this house we believe that Platonism is of Egyptian origin, that Plato learned in Egypt (or from Pythagoreans who had learned in Egypt)

“A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go” by Pierre Lusson, Georges Perec, and Jacques Roubaud is, surprise surprise, an utter delight

This certainly sounds like the premise for an A24 horror movie set in Boston

Still wild to me that Quebec got them to call it this

Stunt Dummy Death Mix #2 / 1978-1991 💀sound on💀

It is here

Another by the great Diane Seuss. No one does late America better.

had a dream where the mechanical trousers from Wallace and Gromit could also be worn by women

I’m not going to read that essay until everyone starts pronouncing “mɒdernism” as “mōdernism” or else the editor corrects its central coinage to “brahdernism.” The vowel-sound oscillation is giving me hives.

manteca waterslides 1978

This is literally the first page of Rudyard Kipling’s autobiography

Kill me, mommy

Francis Ponge, Soap

This is a fantastic translation of a truly overwhelming novel—highly highly recommended